Stories from 4 May 2009
Trinidad & Tobago: The Interchange
Trinidadians Caribbean Free Radio, Mauvais Langue and The Undisputed Truth all blog about the new highway interchange.
Trinidad & Tobago: Empower OSHA
“The Government has pumped millions into the construction of skyscrapers and mega-projects all over Trinidad and Tobago, but it appears to have fallen short when it comes to properly funding OSHA (the Occupational Health and Safety Act)”: Tattoo says that the government's failure to act on construction workers’ deaths “risk[s]...
Cuba: May Day
As Havana Times blogs about the traditions of May Day in Cuba, complete with photos of the festivities, Generation Y does something non-traditional: “The limited drumming arose from the smallness of the individual who dared, and not from the massive automatism of those who paraded in the morning..in spite of...
Trinidad & Tobago: Too Late?
“Trinidad and Tobago…remains so out of date that Microsoft no longer supports the tools that were used to create the majority of government websites”: KnowProSE.com says that the Prime Minister's pronouncement of ICT as the way forward for the region “is absolutely right. And I suppose we should be grateful...
Belize: H1N1 Negative
Belizean reports that “there are no confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus” in the country.
Jamaica: Have a Laugh!
Jamaica's Life, Unscripted, on the Rock thinks that World Laughter Day is a “positive concept”, while Montego Bay Day By Day posts two photos which prove that “laughter really is the best medicine.”
Costa Rica: Band Releases Citizen Collaboration Video
Costa Rican band Malpais has released the video for their first single of their latest CD. What makes the video of The Butterfly Effect different is that it includes video clips that were sent in by their fans and uploaded on their website. This new video, part of the Un Dia Lejano (A Day Far Away) album was released online.
Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum membership had its privileges
Since Fiji's government refused to schedule elections, the country has been suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum. Fiji’s suspension marks the first time in its nearly four-decade history the Pacific Islands Forum has taken this step against a country.
China: Pharmaceutical company PSA
Chris Waugh at bezdomny ex patria has translated an advertorial from a company boasting “capacity for large-scale production of swine flu vaccine”. Vaccine confidence, Waugh wonders, or over-confidence?
Hong Kong: Tin Hau festival
See Lamborghinis and lion dances in Gilad Feldman's video and photos from celebrations of the Taoist Tin Hau festival in Hong Kong at Fili's world.
China: Beyond 1989
The idealism and discontent of the 1980s? Long gone, says former student organizer Zhang Lijia via a post at China Herald.
China: Ninetieth anniversary of 05/04 Movement
C. Custer at ChinaGeeks has posted on the context of the May Fourth Movement: “If the West was a lighted room, certainly many Chinese found the bulb growing dimmer as they entered it in the first part of the twentieth century.”
